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Friday, 2 September 2016

Authorities arrested an 18-year-old southern Illinois man who they allege had communicated with an unspecified terrorist group about a plan to an attack on at least one area location.

Keaun L. Cook, of Godfrey, was arrested Wednesday on preliminary charges of providing material support for terrorism and making a terrorist threat. He was being held at the Madison County jail on $150,000 bond and didn't have a lawyer as of Friday morning.

Is President Muhammadu Buhari contemplating a war in the Niger Delta? No, says Niger Delta Affairs Minister Usani Uguru Usani.

Usani, a pastor, whose responsibility is to bring about a turnaround in the fortune of the oil-rich region, said that contrary to belief in some quarters, the Buhari administration has immense humane disposition towards the Niger/Delta area and the people.

He said that government’s tolerance of the chain of reactions in the region is “a demonstration of the fact that government is willing to bring peace at all reasonable cost.”

Let me start by asking an important question: who wants to kill racy introspection?

There is a cacophony of voices telling the Muhammadu Buhari administration to close its eyes to the past; that given the enormous tasks that lie ahead, history and its consequences for our nation should be the least of the government’s preoccupation at this juncture.

I disagree. Let us keep a fiery memory of the past so that we don’t repeat its mistakes. Look back, look ahead. The future must of necessity be built on the foundations of the past.

The F.B.I. on Friday released its interview with Hillary Clinton that was conducted in early July, along with a memorandum summarizing the investigation into her use of a private email server that contained classified information.

The document summarizing the Democratic presidential candidate’s more than three-hour interview, known in the F.B.I. as a 302 report, runs only a dozen pages. The memorandum is lengthier, and goes into greater detail about aspects of the case. The materials were presumably provided to James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, who later decided to not recommend charges in the case.

Riyad Mahrez played a role in encouraging his compatriot Islam Slimani to join Leicester City, according to the club's new record signing.

Slimani said his Algeria international team-mate was in contact prior to a €30million switch from Sporting CP on transfer deadline day, and the pair are now looking forward to playing together under Claudio Ranieri.

Lionel Messi will miss Argentina's World Cup qualifier against Venezuela after aggravating a groin problem, national team coach Edgardo Bauza has confirmed.

Messi ended his short-lived international retirement to score the only goal in Thursday's 1-0 win over Uruguay in Bauza's first game at the helm, sending Argentina to the top of the CONMEBOL qualifying section.

Few men in the history of any nation are as privileged and fortunate, as former President Goodluck Jonathan, to have held every important position of authority and power, consecutively for 16 unbroken years. First elected in 1999 as deputy governor, then governor in 2005, later as vice president in 2007 and finally in 2010 as president and commander in chief of the armed forces of the Nigerian federation. Reputed to be amiable, simple and meek; his steady rise to power has been attributed more to divine providence and sheer luck, as his first name implies than any track record of proven competence and capacity at statecraft. Born on 20th Nov, 1957 in the riverine community of Otuoke in Bayelsa State, to Ijaw parents, Goodluck Jonathan is no doubt Nigeria’s greatest personal beneficiary of the 4th republic.

It was a gory sight as the body of a 50-year-old man, identified as Chief Ekanem Edet, dangled from a rope tied to the roof of his room at Mbiabong Itam in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

Ekanem Edet, former Secretary of the Mbiabong Village Council, popularly called Jolly Boy, waited until his wife and two sons went out before taking his life, allegedly leaving a suicide note in which he blamed his action on harsh economic condition.

Widely traveled BBC World Football reporter, Osasu Obayiuwana revealed that Siasia spoke extensively with him during an interview Wednesday night for the BBC on so many issues including the attack on him (Siasia).

Obayiuwana disclosed that the Bayelsa-born gaffer said during the interview that he was disappointed by the ill-treatment of the U-23 team before and after winning the face-saving bronze medal for the country at the Games as well as the aspersion cast on the Japanese billionaire, Katsuya Takasu who came to the rescue of the team when Nigerian billionaires who heard about their predicament turned deaf ears.